 Don't mistake not being ready for not being prepared, not knowing the difference between those two things as often cause me unnecessary anxiety and apprehension because being ready is to do with having sufficient resources in the bank to deal with any reasonable contingency thrown at you. Being prepared is having what's necessary for a specific occasion or opportunity that you have been given. They are different and if you don't know the difference you'll get them confused because they both can feel like the same thing and the apprehension that you feel is reduced when you realize it's more to do with a lack of preparation so you prepare more and reduce that anxiety and apprehension then it is to do with you not being ready because you are always more ready than you think you are. For instance if you threw me now into a room of leaders to do Q and A on leadership I'm good to go but if you ask me to speak to a group of leaders about leadership I'm going to need to prepare for that. It's not about removing all discomfort it's about knowing what is the nature of this discomfort and you're going to find it's more to do with a sense of lacking preparation than it is to do with you are not ready so more preparation reduces your apprehension and removes the question of am I ready or not because you are.